世纪 shìjì▶ ศตวรรษ

Stroke order

世纪 is written in 11 strokes across 2 characters.

• 世 — 5 strokes
• 纪 — 6 strokes

Example sentences

• 我们生活在二十一世纪。Wǒmen shēnghuó zài èrshíyī shìjì.We live in the twenty-first century.
• 这座城市有几个世纪的历史。Zhè zuò chéngshì yǒu jǐ gè shìjì de lìshǐ.This city has several centuries of history.

Related words

• 世界โลก
• 去世เสียชีวิต, ถึงแก่กรรม
• 年纪อายุ
• 纪录บันทึก, สถิติ, แผ่นเสียง
• 纪律วินัย
• 纪念รำลึกถึง, สร้างอนุสรณ์

世纪 is pronounced shìjì and means “ศตวรรษ”. You will meet it in HSK 4, a band of the Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi — the standard test of Chinese proficiency. Most learners can pick 世纪 out of a list long before they can reach for it unprompted, and the gap between those two closes only with repeated recall. LexiTrail schedules the next sighting from how well you did on the last.